From the Mahler conjecture to Gauss linking integrals

DOI10.1007/S00039-008-0669-4zbMATH Open1169.52004arXivmath/0610904OpenAlexW2047308801WikidataQ122932376 ScholiaQ122932376MaRDI QIDQ1024663FDOQ1024663

Greg Kuperberg

Publication date: 17 June 2009

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We establish a version of the bottleneck conjecture, which in turn implies a partial solution to the Mahler conjecture on the product $v(K)=(VolK)(Vol{K}^{c}irc)$ of the volume of a symmetric convex body $Kin{R}^n$ and its polar body $K^{c}irc$. The Mahler conjecture asserts that the Mahler volume $v(K)$ is minimized (non-uniquely) when $K$ is an $n$-cube. The bottleneck conjecture (in its least general form) asserts that the volume of a certain domain $K^{d}iamondsubseteqKimes{K}^{c}irc$ is minimized when $K$ is an ellipsoid. It implies the Mahler conjecture up to a factor of $(pi/4{)}^{n}gamm{a}_n$, where $gamm{a}_n$ is a monotonic factor that begins at $4/pi$ and converges to $sqrt2$. This strengthens a result of Bourgain and Milman, who showed that there is a constant $c$ such that the Mahler conjecture is true up to a factor of $c^n$. The proof uses a version of the Gauss linking integral to obtain a constant lower bound on $Vol{K}^{d}iamond$, with equality when $K$ is an ellipsoid. It applies to a more general conjecture concerning the join of any two necks of the pseudospheres of an indefinite inner product space. Because the calculations are similar, we will also analyze traditional Gauss linking integrals in the sphere $S^{n-1}$ and in hyperbolic space $H^{n-1}$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610904

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zbMATH Keywords

Mahler's conjecturevolume productbottleneck conjectureGauss linking integral

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local theory of Banach spaces (46B07) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40)

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